可嘉（富兰克林奖得主，亚历克西斯·赖特）

Praiseworthy

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback

Publisher:And Other Stories

Imprint:And Other Stories

ISBN:9781913505929

Published:2 Nov 2023

Classifications:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Weight:642g

Dimensions:130 x 199 x 58 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

在一个被雾霾笼罩的原住民小镇，这预示着生态灾难和祖先聚会的到来。考斯·斯蒂尔（Cause Man Steel）正在追逐一个疯狂的愿景：一项全国性的驴运输计划，以确保他的族人永远独立。然而，当他把野驴塞进他的福特猎鹰（Ford Falcon）并将它们大量丢弃在墓地时，他发现并非所有普莱西沃西（Praiseworthy）的居民都同意他的想法。他亵渎传统土地的行为激起了人们的愤怒，而考斯的妻子丹斯（Dance）则寻求蝴蝶的庇护，梦想着举家迁往中国。

当居民们得知考斯的长子原住民主权（Aboriginal Sovereignty）自杀的消息时，不满情绪达到了高峰。所有人都心烦意乱——除了八岁的汤米霍克·斯蒂尔（Tommyhawk Steel）。他的兄弟去世后，他兴高采烈地追求着成为白人和强大的梦想。 《可嘉》以其丰富的语言和宏大的意象而闻名，是亚历克西斯·赖特赖以成名的作品，充满了震撼人心的句子、令人震惊的寓言、对压迫的愤怒呐喊以及对世界末日的辛辣讽刺。亚历克西斯·赖特赖以成名的作品。

In a small Aboriginal town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both ecological disaster and a gathering of the ancestors, Cause Man Steel is chasing a mad vision: a national donkey transport scheme that will guarantee his people’s independence forever. He finds, however, as he bundles feral donkeys into his Ford Falcon and dumps them en masse in the cemetery, that not all of Praiseworthy agrees. Outrage ferments at his desecration of traditional land, while Cause’s wife Dance seeks refuge with butterflies and dreams of moving their family to China.

Bad feelings reach fever pitch when citizens catch wind of the suicide of Aboriginal Sovereignty, Cause’s eldest son. All are distraught – all, that is, except eight-year-old Tommyhawk Steel, who, with his brother gone, gleefully pursues his dream of becoming white and powerful. Told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned, Praiseworthy is a marvel of explosive sentences, a shock to allegory, an outraged cry against oppression, and a biting satire for the end of days.y for which Alexis Wright has become renowned.

作者简介

亚历克西斯·赖特是卡奔塔利亚湾南部高地瓦伊族人，也是澳大利亚颇受赞誉、无畏的作家之一。赖特是仅有一位同时获得澳大利亚两项颇负盛名的奖项——迈尔斯·富兰克林奖（2007年，凭借《卡奔塔利亚》获奖）和斯特拉奖（2018年，凭借《追踪者》获奖）的作家。

Alexis Wright, a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, is one of Australia's most acclaimed and fearless writers. Wright is the only author to win Australia's two most prestigious prizes, the Miles Franklin Award (in 2007 for Carpentaria) and the Stella Prize (in 2018 for Tracker).